Get a look at the inner workings and gears of your enterprise with this book! With expert guidance from the authors, you’ll learn to carefully map your business’s financial path. From planning through integration, you’ll understand the business steps and requirements needed to work with SAP’s solutions for enterprise performance management. Learn how EPM can help you create detailed financial plans, monitor actual costs against budget, and analyze profitability based on products or customer behavior.
1. Manage your Financial Performance
Understand what enterprise performance management is, what it does to direct your
financial performance, and what best practices you should follow.
2. Financial Planning and Analysis Lifecycle
Strategy roll-out. Planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Profitability and cost management.
Monitoring and reporting. Find the information you need to best implement these essential
practices.
3. SAP EPM Applications
Learn about the SAP EPM applications and how they enable organizations to meet their strategic
financial goals and performance improvement initiatives.
4. Integration
Know how to extend the reach of EPM. You’ll learn about options for integrating SAP EPM
with SAP ERP, BI tools, and more.
5. Move your SAP EPM Solution Forward
Scope out the road map and latest evolutions in EPM applications, including rapid-deployment
solutions, starter kits, and SAP EPM Unwired.
Highlights:
Performance management lifecycle
Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
Financial close acceleration
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
Financial Information Management
Disclosure Management
Integration
Monitoring and reporting
Profitability and cost management
Strategy management
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Understand how SAP Enterprise Performance Management enables financial planning processes
Learn best practices for streamlining strategy, planning, and profitability analysis
Preview SAP’s vision for EPM, including SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, SAP HANA support, and more
Malcolm Faulkner
Malcolm Faulkner is currently a senior director of product marketing and is responsible for product marketing of financial planning and analysis solutions within the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) group at SAP. Malcolm holds a B.S. in computer science from Imperial College, London University, and an M.B.A. from New York University, Stern School of Business.
Malcolm has over two decades of experience in the software industry, beginning as a software engineer. He spent several years as an adjunct lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley Extension, teaching a variety of continuing education computer programming-related classes. Before moving into product marketing in 2008, he had roles in technical training and pre-sales. He joined SAP in 2007.
Malcolm is a regular speaker on FP&A and predictive analytics at SAP events, including SAP Financials, the SAP BusinessObjects User Conference, and SAPPHIRE. He has also presented on CFO.com webinars. He’s also a featured blogger on these topics on the-decisionfactor.com and blogs.sap.com/analytics.
He currently resides in Colorado. In his spare time (when not writing), Malcolm enjoys cycling, yoga, and coaching soccer.
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